REFUGEE|ISM

REFUGEE | ISM reflects on the situation of involuntary migrants. Migrants are very much involved in finding their roles in society as well as their current representation in art: as representatives of their biography and as self-determined actors of a future community.

SYRIAN SITUATION

In 2011 segments of the Syrian people revolted against the Assad regime and startet the Arab Spring. Eight years later, Syria is devastated by war and more than 6 million people fled the country. Kampnagel curator Anas Aboura invited Syrian artists and activists to discuss the current situation in their country.

Till Schauder / Shahin Najafi:
Wenn Gott schläft

Film

In “Wenn Gott schläft”, the director Till Schauder creates a portrait of the Iranian singer and rapper Shahin
Najafi, whom he accompanied with a camera for four years. In 2012, an event drew a lot of attention and was
reported in the world media: Shahin Najafi released the satirical song “Naghi”, which led to a fatwa being
released against him that ordered his death.

Franz von Strolchen / Christian Winkler:
The Impossible Vastness

In the summer of 2017, the director Franz von Strolchen, who grew up in the historic Bukovina, traveled from Greece through Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary all the way to Vienna in order to journey over the former Balkan emigration route in a period after the so-called “flood of refugees”. Beginning with this screenplay, it is a thrilling and immersive performance between film and theater, between the film team and the three female performers from Macedonia, Hungary and Germany.

Branko Šimić:
Protest Portraits

PROTEST PORTRAITS offers a sketch of three remarkable
artists who were threatened and persecuted for
their artistic positions, and were forced to leave their
home countries: the Croatian director Oliver Frljic,
the Iranian musician Shahin Najafi and the Pussy
Riot activist Mascha Alechina. It is a post-documentary
theater evening to advocate artistic freedom!

Conference on Migration and Media Awareness

»Telling our story in a world gone mad«

On November 23-25, Kampnagel will host the first CONFERENCE ON MIGRATION AND MEDIA AWARENESS, bringing together a forum of international media practitioners, journalists, politicians and people with or without an experience of asylum-searching. Across countless workshops as well as podium-, exhibition-, music- and performance-formats, participants are brought into a discursive conversation about political atmospheres and opinions in the era of the “post-welcome culture.” Methods are exchanged and strategies developed, with the goal of using positive counter-narratives, social engagement and creative strategies borne out of the experience of exile to counter negative media stories about immigration and migration, fake news and “hate speech.” At the “Infomedia Souk,” migrant-initiated community-media projects will present themselves as sources of expressive empowerment and alternative narratives, as well as media pluralism and diversity. Politicians and activists, journalists and bloggers, educators and social workers, community representatives and the Hamburg public are invited to discuss the relevance of social empowerment and social participation.

On Thursday right before the CONFERENCE ON MIGRATON AND MEDIA AWARENESS are two PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS:

THURSDAY NOV 23

15:00-17:30 Media Against Hate (Workshop, Teil 1)

Journalists, community media producers and NGO representatives will meet to exchange good practices on prevention of hate speech and discrimination, in particular against women journalists, refugees and migrants.

Creating hate-free media environments for young people – platforms and literacy skills.
Empowerment and protection of women journalists and media makers.

The project is financially supported by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme of the European Union, and co-funded by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (U.S.)

15:00 - 17:30 Workshop: Fake News Syndrome Mainstream Media vs Alternative Media
Social media has brought us, freedom of expression and provided a gateway to a new era of information without borders. Fighting misinformation against FAKE NEWS, promoting the development of tools and practices to prevent its spread against and amongst newcomers (Migrant’s/Refugees) and the community.

10:00 - 11:30 Workshop
Refugees and Migrants: The Language and Etiquette of Reporting.Language shapes attitudes; inaccurate stories can incite fear and hate. How can media workers ensure their reporting of migrants and refugees is fair and accurate? And how can media stories that are false or misleading be challenged successfully?Participants of this workshop will be invited to critically examine a range of recent media stories about migrants and to share ideas on how those stories might have been improved or told differently.

14:15 - 15:30 CMFE General AssemblyThis year’s CMFE General Assembly and round table meeting will take place during this event. Participation and attendance of members is very important to us, as we will talk about future plans and strategies, exchange about recent developments in our members’ countries and Europe.

Location: kx

15:00 - 15:45 Film Screening – 19 DAYS
Join us for a film screening of 19 Days The screening will be followed by a Q and A session with Award winning Asha Siad, one of the film's two Canadian-based filmmakers.

This short documentary follows several refugee families during their first 19 days in Canada as they navigate an unfamiliar terrain that has suddenly become their home. 19 Days reveals the human side of the refugee resettlement process. A unique look at the global migration crisis and one particular stage of asylum, the film lays plain the realities faced on the difficult road towards integration.

16:00 - 17:30 Panel Discussion
Migration, Refugees from Solidarity to fear.This debate will examine media reporting on migration and refugees psycho-social effect from solidarity to fear in the context of a post welcome culture.Talks will be examined by experts and the people’s forum.

Migrantpolitan

Here the fun (casino, music and hanging out) is combined with the useful (donations)!

Since the 2015/16 season, the MIGRANTPOLITAN has been a location, laboratory and meeting place in which new formats of working, living and celebrating together can be tested and developed. It’s a place where the social categorizations in “refugee” and “local” are abandoned and whose protagonists can design cosmopolitan visions together. As a label, MIGRANTPOLITAN is a producer of its own activities and enriches the Kampnagel program with highlights from a perspective of migrant politics. Concepts were developed in the Kampnagel program such as ORIENTAL KARAOKE, SYRIAN DIASPORIC SOUNDS or the REFUGEE VOICES TV SHOW.

During the first International Summer Festival week, MIGRANTPOLITANS will revive the SOLICASINO together with the USCHI GELLER EXPERIENCE for four nights – probably the most charming way to let someone take your money, for example, at MauMau of Death, Poker or a shell game “Hütchenspiel”. During the second and third festival week, every night the COMMA CAFÉ will be open; and present specials such as jam session concerts curated by Anas Aboura, Boy Division as a living JUKE BOX, SOLIDARITY LYP SYNC EXTRAVAGANZA by House of Cuntrol, and for the closing party Deejay Faith will be invited by the Refugee Radio Network. One thing applies to everything: every lost Euro or one spent on drink is one won for MIGRANTPOLITAN and the Refugee Radio Network!

Rica Blunck:
International Society

The International Society has had enough of other people’s rules: It is founding its own state within Hamburg. Together with young Hamburgers and recent arrivals, choreographer, theater-maker and musician Rica Blunck develops a vision of a transnational society in a newly invented state. The International Society uses the strategies of dance/theater/parkour to form a practice of agitation and demonstrate a fast-paced anti-thesis to the dominant culture.

Dzoni Sichelschmidt / wearevisual:
Roma Protest II: Deponie

Performance-Installation with young Sinti and Roma

In many European countries, Sinti and Roma are used as scapegoats and seen as trash-recyclers. In some cases, they live in selfmade slums of garbage. Roma-expert, DJ and musician Dzoni Sichelschmidt has created a dump where the garbage no longer stinks and, instead, becomes raw material for something new.

Frank Spilker / Trümmer / Lafote:
Migrantpolitan Soliparty

Team MIGRANTPOLITAN invites everybody to a big Solidarity-Party with Shisha, Schnaps and beautiful people. Local music heroes are performing live: Indiepunk sensation Lafote, Trümmer (who can't stay long but promised to dress extra-fancy) and “Die Sterne” frontman Frank Spilker with a solo acoustic set. Afterwards DJ Wuchtbrumme shows us his record collection. MIGRANTPOLITAN is here to party!

Alejo - The Stranger Refugee Radio Network:
Refugee Voices Show

The third issue of the REFUGEE VOICES SHOW deals with the traumatic experience of crossing the Mediterranean Sea on rickety boats. The people on the boats are often singing against their fear of the unknown. The Media Activist Larry Moore Macaulay made this experience on his own some years ago. Now he got again in touch with the singer who raised his voice in songs and poetry during his crossing. For the REFUGEE VOICES SHOW Sunday Akinrotoye, Juju musician and percussionist, performs the theatrical musical »Alejo – The Stranger«. This TV-show focuses on musicians from several countries who transform fear into sounds. The Show is followed by a talk with Sunday Akinrotoye, Sven Kacirek (musician/composer from Hamburg) and Kool Kray-Z (multi-talented hip-hop artist and former Xfactor participant) who discuss the question of transforming fear into music. Guest Dj: Deejays faith- Da Prince Entertainment.

Migrantpolitan:
Still Alive: Syrian Diasporic Sounds

Due to the war in Syria lots of musicians, artists and singers are now part of the Syrian diaspora. Anas Aboura collected various artists and bands who live in Germany or other European countries. By changing the camp with the stage a new level of artistic expression is possible! Don’t miss this two-days-and nights-long festival of Syrian art, music and lectures!

Schwabinggrad Ballett / Arrivati:
Beyond Welcome!

What exactly was meant by, ‘welcome’? Must you be a citizen to be able to participate in this society? When have criminal residents ever been deported? Why is it called a ‘refugee crisis’ and not a ‘housing crisis’? Are there alternatives to a camp system? What’s the problem, Germany? One year after the German ‘Summer of Migration’ the Hamburg agitprop artists of the Schwabinggrad Ballet and Arrivati are forming an autonomous collective of refugees and migrants, and prompting a series of urban interventions for the rights of refugees and the right to the city. They will go to the refugee arrival camps, to Axel-Springer-Platz, to the park, to the town hall. They will perform, create unexpected situations and invite activists and communities to participate in an open debate with a party atmosphere.

Anas Aboura:
Oriental Karaoke

»Stay where people sing, bad people don’t have songs« But unfortunately neither syrian underground-hymns or arabic love songs can be found on the playlists of Hamburg’s Karaoke-Bars. Therefore, Anas Aboura, a syrian refugee in Hamburg, invites you to ORIENTAL KARAOKE. Songs being performed in Damaskus will now be sung in Hamburg. Home is where the heart is.

Refugee Radio Network:
The Refugee Voices Show

The Refugee Voices Show goes live and online, too! In your face all over the place! We’re on TV … the hottest refugee show. Empowering people and connecting cultures! The Refugee Voices Show uplifts viewers, educates them on surrent events in refugee/migration and provides valuable insight with information that informs their decisions for the rest of the day. It will inform, entertain, uplift and be great company. Discussion, comedy, entertainment and more. Keep calm and stay up to date with RRN TV! Love freedom! Love life!

Roma Protest

ROMA PROTEST is an evening comprised of the most varied artistic modules, dedicated to the situation of the Roma people. It arises in light of the way in which asylum seekers from ‘safe homelands’ are being deported. Roma artists articulate positions of identity, danger, politics, history and pain through performance, photography, lectures and music.

8:30pm TANJA OSTOJIC: NAKED LIFE / PERFORMANCE

Serbian artist Tanja Ostojic uses her work to explore the themes of migration, feminism and minorities. Her approach to art is uncompromising, personal and intimate. Her own life becomes the subject matter and a key part of her art works. As such it becomes difficult to mark the split between art as a profession and her private life. In the project, ‘Looking for a Husband with an EU Passport’ she, a non EU citizen, posts a naked photo on the internet in the search for a husband and shows how the lives of (female) migrants are influenced by external forces. She came to Kampnagel in 2010 with her performance ‘Integration Impossible’. Now, at the KRASS Festival, Ostojic presents her performance NAKED LIFE, taking stories from the lives of the Roma population, who must face brutality and marginalisation on a daily basis. She not only exhibits stories of discrimination and violence, but also her own naked and vulnerable body.

The photo series PARNO GRAS: MUKLINE EVROPLJANURA (The white horse: the neglected Europeans) focuses on the lives of the Roma population in Europe. It scrutinises their existence, their social and political status, as well as their status as refugees. Born in Sarajevo in 1965, Nihad Nino Pušija studied Politics and Journalism in Sarajevo and spent many years with the Roma population, working as a photo journalist. Many of the 12-15 million Roma people living in Europe are confronted with prejudice, intolerance, discrimination and social marginalisation every single day. In their lecture, Nihad Nino Pušija and Dzoni Sichelschmidt report on the current situation for the Roma population.

10:30pm JONY ILIEV & BAND: CONCERT

Full of passion, driven to and fro between happiness and despair, between seemingly never ending poverty and discrimination on the one hand, and freedom and irrepressible zest for life on the other hand, Jony Iliev & Band captivate audiences with their own virtuoso compositions and songs, sung in their mother tongue of Romani. The enrapturing vocal talents of Jony Iliev and his excellent band stand out from classical gypsy music. It is not just the unbelievable vocal versatility, but above all the astoundingly imaginative compositions: you can hear rumba rhythms alongside klezmer and jazz sounds. After the concert, DJ Ramovilo will mix Balkan breaks with gypsy soul and brass techno.

International Conference of Refugees and Migrants:
The struggle of Refugees - How to go on?

Under the working title of, ‘The struggle of refugees – how to go on?’ the Lampedusa group is promoting networking for refugees with their own conference in Hamburg, enabling an exchange on the current situation and legal positions in Germany and Europe. For three days, supporters and activists will discuss topics including asylum legislation, deportation, racist attacks, violence against women, child kidnapping and the division into war refugees and economic refugees. After all, the main reasons for fleeing to Europe are still colonialism, war and ecological destruction in refugees’ home countries. The conference brings together the most important voices in the political struggle of refugees and brings concrete suggestions to the table for implementing better living conditions. Everyone is invited to play an active role as refugees, activists and interested parties from Hamburg and many other European and German cities create a forum for inspiration and discussion, opening up new scope for action. Come all! And in solidarity!

Mobile Albania / Pneuma Szöv:
Paplament

The Pap family is a roaming tribe that occupies grey town squares, black stages and empty back gardens on its raids. The ‘orbanisation’ has begun: new borders everywhere, fear as a political strategy, totalitarian control of public space, segregation. Gangs of arsonists rage as they claim their territory and want to shield themselves against unwanted intruders. At the festival, the Pap family settle into their yurt of election cards and invite us to make useful and useless things from the cardboard homes of the last elections, following the motto: ‘The election poster doesn’t need a person but the cardboard is super.’ Do it yourself – from the AfD subjects through to Martin-Schulz-Schwert, everything is there. During the handwork you are plunged into the Pap family cosmos, which searches for new and old identities on the other side of the nation. What can we learn from the Huns, who set the limes of the Roman Empire quaking with their surges? How can we conquer the state or the static with nomadic principles? But above all: What will our guests teach us? The election poster yurt becomes a radio studio in collaboration with the Refugee Radio, it becomes a discussion room, a meeting place, a factory and playground. Strange objects and conspiracies emerge. Which secret society is forming here? What struggle are they gathering arms for? What border fences does the orbanisation team have in view?

Philip Baumgarten / Afsane Ehsandar:
Endless Hospitality

What does escape do to people who must leave behind their legal status and their identity and, when they arrive in a new country, are forced to fight hard to get both of them back? This question has played on the mind of theatre writer Afsane Ehsandar since she fled from Iran. ENDLESS HOSPITALITY is a grotesque drama about the inside story of escape, about stories that aren’t told in any country and about a prison cell as a place people yearn for. Working with director Philip Baumgarten and an international ensemble of dancers and actors, Ehsandar uses ENDLESS HOSPITALITY to try to cease the replication of victim roles and shock, and to report on events where the protagonists remain absent.

Refugee Radio Network:
The Refugee Voices Show

Under the working title of, ‘The struggle of refugees – how to go on?’ the Lampedusa group is promoting networking for refugees with their own conference in Hamburg, enabling an exchange on the current situation and legal positions in Germany and Europe. For three days, supporters and activists will discuss topics including asylum legislation, deportation, racist attacks, violence against women, child kidnapping and the division into war refugees and economic refugees. After all, the main reasons for fleeing to Europe are still colonialism, war and ecological destruction in refugees’ home countries. The conference brings together the most important voices in the political struggle of refugees and brings concrete suggestions to the table for implementing better living conditions. Everyone is invited to play an active role as refugees, activists and interested parties from Hamburg and many other European and German cities create a forum for inspiration and discussion, opening up new scope for action. Come all! And in solidarity!

»Refugee Radio Network goes TV! The Refugee Voices Show goes live and online, too! In your face all over the place! We’re on TV ... the hottest refugee show. Empowering people and connecting cultures! The Refugee Voices Show uplifts viewers, educates them on current events in refugee/migration and provides valuable insight with information that informs their decisions for the rest of the day. It will inform, entertain, uplift and be great company. Discussion, comedy, entertainment and more. Keep calm and stay up to date with RRN TV! Love freedom! Love Life!«

Migrantpolitan

HOUSEWARMING on Friday 11th December from 5.30 pm.

Located in the Kampnagel garden we are opening up a space for migrantpolitans – open daily with different emancipatory formats developed by / with / for migrants from all over the world. migrantpolitan is a place to meet, hang out and connect. It offers possibilities to planning political action as well as cooking up a nice meal for your friends! At our housewarming we would like to present our hosts and the program – come and enjoy the transkulturelle gemütlichkeit offered by migrantpolitans!